We are joined once more by Dr. Vern Poethrus.

He has degrees from Cambridge and Harvard and Caltech and of course Westminster Theological

Seminary where you now live and work.

He's genius.

A New Testament scholar, a mathematician, a man who can talk with authority on just about

any topic under the sun and we're talking about your book Chance and the sovereignty

of God, a God-centered approach to probability in random events which was published in 2014.

At the end of this episode, I'll tell you how to get the book for free online.

Yesterday, we talked about coin tosses and today I want you to explain without going

into too much of the detail, just why are casinos confident of making a profit off of

the gambling industry?

You explain the math in your book, but for us here in like five minutes, can you explain

why casinos don't lose money in the end?

Right.

Well, they make sure they wouldn't stay in business otherwise, but God has put in place

in this world, in his governance of the world, regularities, even with respect to what we

call Chance events, events that we cannot predict, the thing of the, you know, the shuffling

of cards or if you've got a roulette table where there's a ball running around.

God is in charge of all that and part of the marvel of it, if we can separate it from

some of the moral evils that crop up in gambling, part of the marvel of it is that there's

regularities and faith on us in such wonderful consistency, even in this area of so-called

Chance events, events that we cannot predict, but you see the regularities, if for

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